What will be bodybuilder's future?

If he loses again? He could be remembered as the new Herbie Hide.

 

He shouldn't rematch. There's no way he wins it.

He should resign himself to being a popular attraction and fight at a slightly lower level. Wilder, Whyte 2, Ruiz 3: these could all be good, interesting fights that he has a solid chance of winning. He doesn't have to be number 1 and create a 'legacy', he isn't going to, but he can still bring some entertaining scraps before retirement.

 

I think next Usyk fight he either loses bigly or wins bigly as in he Either Kos usyk or fails to Ko usyk tires out and get walked on but who knows in his mind all he has to do is run for 12 rounds and the jduges will hand it to him.

 

Whatever happens, people will slag him off.

 

Doesn't he still hold a belt?

If the mandatory for that one is weak enough, rematch Usyk only for whatever belt Usyk has right now. When Joshua loses, he can still defeat a weak mandatory challenger and hold the remaining belt hostage for a unification fight.

 

Rematch Usyk. He'll still be popular in the UK. There's a bunch of fights he can make in the UK that will sell well.
Chisora, Whyte rematch, David Haye, Hughie Fury.

 

The rematch will finish his career. Needs to take a step back now...take on the guys below the top 3 or 4 and find out where he really stands. A lot of question marks after last night tbh. Is he really still up for it? Is he even capable of beating guys outside the top 3. Should be looking at hunter, chisora, ortiz, joyce, hrgovic etc.

Time to find out how good he actually is. Outside of beating a raw dillan whyte a gunshy parker and a morbidly overweight ruiz...the rest have been a collection of old guys.

Hes now been smashed against ruiz and outclassed badly against usyk. Owes it to himself to take a step back for 2 or 3 fights and evaluate after that.

 

He should put all his efforts into trying to negotiate another deal with JD, after his humiliating loss his value has dropped by tenfold if not more.

 

He has a choice, but either way he's going to fight Usyk again...

1) Take the big pay days of fighting Usyk, Fury twice & Wilder, and then retire with 6 losses on his record and 20-odd wins
2) Lose to Usyk again and take a step back from trying to be a top 3 fighter. Fight some easier fights, take a few smaller pay days, pad the record out a bit with some easy wins, wait a few years and then possibly go for the big fights once the hype returns

I think he will do the former

Side note: this totally kills the huge hype behind AJ vs Fury right? No-one think AJ will have a chance in that fight, meaning it's less of a must-watch. They also won't have all the belts on the line either. So it's gone from being the biggest fight in history (in a money sense), to just another big heavyweight fight, where the outcome is almost certain

 

I say go for the rematch with Usyk, it is all signed up, it just requires AJ to take the option, what has he got to lose, nothing, if he lost then he has loss to Usyk anyway in fight 1 so would not change things, however if wins then the big money will keep rolling in

The paying public is quite fickle, and i believe AJ is only truly marketable if fighting for or defending the title, other than may be a non title bout versus Fury should that ever be in the pipeline.

AJ is a big money brand, ultimately it will be the paying customer who decides AJs future,

 

AJ's real future is he lives a great life having made a heap of money and seems sensible enough to have not blown it all

 

Why not Fury? Fans complain the best don't fight the best because they want to keep a perfect record. Then when a fighter loses to a top opponent he is written off. Sorry JLH, but you and fans that think like you are one of the reasons boxing is in the state it's in. Styles make fights. AJ can still do damage.

 

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